Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 10:13 PM EDT for Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyoming County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 190214 TORCRW WVC109-190300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1013 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...WYOMING COUNTY AT 1010 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STORM WILL CROSS SOUTHERN WYOMING COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TOP A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 5:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
WVZ007-009-017-018-029-OHZ066-067-076-083>085-KYZ101-102-104-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER AND RIVER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 545 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...WATER LEVELS RUNNING HIGH ON THE LITTLE SANDY IN KENTUCKY... AND ON THE HOCKING AND MUSKINGUM RIVERS IN OHIO.... ...HIGH WATER LEVELS EXPECTED ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IN WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL THAT FELL ACROSS THE AREA EARLIER TODAY....EXPECTED RAINFALL BETWEEN 3/4 TO 1.50 INCHES THIS EVENING...AND THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL ALLOW MOST OF THE WATER TO RUNOFF INTO THE STREAMS AND INTO THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM...AND LITTLE KANAWHA RIVERS. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL AT THIS TIME. THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON IS EXPECTED TO CREST AROUND THE FLOOD STAGE OF 21 FEET DURING THE MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY. WATER LEVELS ON THE HOCKING RIVER AT ATHENS IS EXPECTED TO REACH NEAR THE FLOOD STAGE OF 20 FEET ON SATURDAY EVENING. WATER LEVELS ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER ARE EXPECTED TO CREST FROM 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AT MCCONNELLSVILLE. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA AT GLENVILLE ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AROUND NOON ON FRIDAY. GRANTSVILLE AND ELIZABETH ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 BANKFULL. BACKWATER AFFECTS ON STREAMS AND CREEKS THAT FEED INTO THESE RIVERS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM... AND LITTLE KANAWHA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WATER LEVELS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. END/SIKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 25 min |
| May 18, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 29 min |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mingo | 30 min |
| May 18, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 40 min |
| May 18, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 27 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.